Even though the Glib docs says we should use base 1000 to display
"Network and storage sizes" I don't agree. They might have their
rationale for this, but almost everything else displays KiB as KB(I know
this is wrong) or at the best, they display file size as KiB. Even
browsers(Firefox, Chromium...) and the majority of websites display KiB
as KB. They are not ignorants or idiots, they're just not trying to
confuse users.

All in all, I think that Thunar should use base 1024 notation, because
it's not wrong and it's no confusing for the user, for example: "Oh, I
downloaded this 60,4 MB file(the site and the browser told the user
this), but Thunar says this is 63.3 MB". The funny thing is that if
everybody is not following the standard, the one that follows is seen as
wrong.

So, if I or someone else submit a patch in order to "fix" this, will
TPTB accept?

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